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单词 nicobarese
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Nicobaresen.adj.

Brit. /nɪkə(ʊ)bəˈriːz/, U.S. /ˌnɪkəbəˈriz/, /ˌnɪkəˌbɑˈriz/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Nicobar , -ese suffix.
Etymology: < the name of the Nicobar Islands , a group of nineteen islands situated in the Bay of Bengal between the Andaman Islands and the Indonesian island of Sumatra + -ese suffix. Compare earlier Nicobarian n. and adj.
A. n.
1. A member of the people of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Frequently with plural agreement.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > Indian islands
Maldivan1625
Maldivian1779
Nicobarian1791
Andaman1848
Andamanese1862
Nicobarese1870
1870 Nature 28 July 265/2 The Nicobarese speak of a swelling of the bitten part.
1875 F. A. de Roepstorff Vocab. Dial. Nicobar & Andaman Isles (ed. 2) 14 The Nicobarese have all they want, yet they like very much to barter with foreigners.
1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 376 Only under very exceptional circumstances would a Nicobarese undertake a walk of over 20 miles.
1924 G. Whitehead In Nicobar Islands ii. 47 The Nicobarese keep a great number of domestic pigs, which they feed on coco-nut.
1939 Man 39 139 In Nicobar it [sc. a sugar press] is used by the Nicobarese, who are considered to be of a mixed Mongoloid stock.
1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 229 The population of the Nicobars has been swollen in the last two decades by settlers from all parts of India, forming a polyglot element..about as numerous as the native Nicobarese.
1995 Sci. Amer. May 18/3 The Shompen conduct unequal barter with another Mongoloid people, the Nicobarese.
2. The Mon-Khmer language of the Nicobar people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austroasiatic > Mon-Khmer > south
Peguan1698
Nicobarian1699
Mon1808
Talaing1854
Nicobarese1882
1882 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 11 291 (table) List of Symbols employed to denote the Sounds of the Vowels, Diphthongs, and Consonants of the Andaman and Nicobar Languages... Example in English, &c. Example in..Nicobarese.
1884 F. A. de Roepstorff Dict. Nancowry Dial. of Nicobarese Lang. p. xiii Nicobarese is a wholly uninflective tongue.
1943 Far Eastern Q. 2 349 Other members of this family that survive to this day are: Khasi, spoken in Assam; Nicobarese, with half a dozen dialects, spoken in the Nicobar islands;..and finally the Mon-Khmer group proper.
1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 229 Nicobarese..is spoken by 15,000 islanders.
1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Austoasiatic languages Except in Nicobarese, there are no suffixes.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Nicobar people or their language.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [adjective] > Indian islands
Maldivian1841
Nicobarian1846
Andaman1860
Nicobarese1875
1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 466 They [sc. the Andamanese]..have been taught to construct them by their Nicobarese prisoners.
1889 E. H. Man (title) Dictionary of the central Nicobarese language.
1931 Man 31 116/2 In the descriptions of tutelary spirits and spirits of disease..there is something oddly reminiscent of Nicobarese custom.
1972 Current Anthropol. 13 455/2 Historic record, tallying, or calendar sticks, such as the English Clogg Almanac, the Scandinavian rune stick, the Yakut calendar stick, the Nicobarese calendar stick..all operate within similar cognitive contexts.
1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Nicobarese languages The Nicobarese languages are usually classified into four groups: North Nicobar..; Central Nicobar..; South Nicobar..; and Inland Great Nicobar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1870
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